Let's pick at that prophecy a little more, shall we?

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

No: HPFGUIDX 77644

I originally wrote:

> > Also to note- Voldemort has in no way marked Neville as equal. 
The 
> > very fact that Voldemort has not bothered Neville at all proves 
> that 
> > he thinks that Neville poses no threat to him whatsoever. 

Hickengruendler responded:

> We don't actually know this, that he hasn't bother Neville. In 
fact, 
> if I were Voldemort and heard, that a baby could be my downfall, I 
> would try to kill both possible candidates, just to get sure. It is 
> IMO absolutely possible, if not likely, that Voldemort wanted to 
kill 
> both babies, but that he had the opportunity to kill Harry first, 
> because the Longbottoms had a secret keeper, that wasn't a Death 
> Eater.

Me (Laurasia):

Well, he didn't seem remotely interested in Neville at the Department 
of Mysteries. Neville wasn't kidnapped and tied to a Gravestone in 
his fourth year. So maybe Voldemort *wanted* to kill both Harry and 
Neville when they were one, but he seems to have stopped trying to 
kill Neville since then. This, IMO, shows that Voldemort has accpeted 
that Harry is the one spoken of in the prophecy. The prophecy hangs 
together on one line 'the Dark Lord will mark him as equal.' The Dark 
Lord *chooses* who is his equal. He thinks that Harry is his equal, 
not Neville. Maybe 14 years ago he thought that they both *could* be 
the one in the prophecy, but ever since Harry thwarted him he seems 
to have  focussed entirely on Harry as his equal, Harry as the one  
who he must defeat and Harry who poses the biggest danger to him. In 
other words- even if Voldemort was originally planning to kill both 
babies he now only considers Harry to be his equal and considers 
Neville to be no threat to him at all.  Voldemort never got the 
chance to mark Neville. Maybe he was going to... but he's only ever 
marked Harry as equal and to be a threat.

~<(Laurasia)>~